IFRS Contract Job Trends in London

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IFRS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 326 354
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 +101
Contract jobs citing IFRS 81 45 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.22% 1.99% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 21
10th Percentile £350 £325 £475
25th Percentile £400 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £688
90th Percentile £738 £925 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% -14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

IFRS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,654 2,260 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.40% 16.71% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,456 1,502 1,667
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £756 £799
England median daily rate £505 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 33 58
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.28 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +44.96% -10.19%
75th Percentile £41.80 £48.00 £38.06
90th Percentile £62.00 £63.35 £52.73
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

IFRS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IFRS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

IFRS job vacancy trend in London

IFRS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IFRS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IFRS

IFRS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IFRS in London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IFRS in London

IFRS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IFRS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IFRS

IFRS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IFRS within the London region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -11 6 £595 -8.46% 4
West London - 1 - - 1
IFRS
England

IFRS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (24.69%) NetSuite
2 4 (4.94%) HFM
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (2.47%) Loan IQ
5 1 (1.23%) Aladdin
5 1 (1.23%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (1.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (1.23%) OneSumX
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.23%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.99%) SaaS
2 5 (6.17%) OCI
3 4 (4.94%) Azure
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (3.70%) Google Ads
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) AWS
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) GitHub
6 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.47%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.47%) Metadata
3 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.23%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.23%) Power Query
4 1 (1.23%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.23%) ERwin
1 1 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
General
1 72 (88.89%) Finance
2 17 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Banking
5 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.70%) Games
6 3 (3.70%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (2.47%) Billing
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Analyst
2 18 (22.22%) Accountant
2 18 (22.22%) Financial Analyst
3 14 (17.28%) Lead
4 13 (16.05%) Report Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Architect
5 7 (8.64%) Senior
6 6 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Finance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Report Specialist
7 4 (4.94%) Test Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Report Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Architect
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Architect
9 2 (2.47%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.47%) Data Architect
9 2 (2.47%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.47%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Reinsurance
2 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.94%) Derivative
2 4 (4.94%) Equities
2 4 (4.94%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.70%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.47%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Revenue Recognition
2 17 (20.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 15 (18.52%) ERP
3 15 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (16.05%) Process Improvement
5 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (14.81%) ETL
6 11 (13.58%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (13.58%) Validation
7 10 (12.35%) Data Governance
8 9 (11.11%) Analytics
8 9 (11.11%) Migration
8 9 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.64%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.41%) Agile
10 6 (7.41%) Change Management
10 6 (7.41%) Data Transformation
10 6 (7.41%) Record to Report
11 5 (6.17%) Cutover Planning
11 5 (6.17%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) Python
3 2 (2.47%) VBA
4 1 (1.23%) C
4 1 (1.23%) Korn
4 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (35.80%) ACCA
2 10 (12.35%) CIMA
3 8 (9.88%) Degree
4 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (50.62%) GAAP
2 16 (19.75%) IFRS 17
3 11 (13.58%) Data Quality
4 8 (9.88%) IFRS 9
4 8 (9.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (8.64%) QA
5 7 (8.64%) Solvency II
6 2 (2.47%) GDPR
7 1 (1.23%) COREP
7 1 (1.23%) FINREP
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Oracle
2 10 (12.35%) Salesforce
2 10 (12.35%) SAP
3 7 (8.64%) Hyperion
4 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.94%) Databricks
5 4 (4.94%) Tagetik
6 2 (2.47%) Sage
7 1 (1.23%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (1.23%) BT
7 1 (1.23%) Charles River
7 1 (1.23%) Cognos
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) Informatica
7 1 (1.23%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.23%) Wolters Kluwer
7 1 (1.23%) Workday
7 1 (1.23%) Xero